Just watched Sir Ken Robinson on TED. I love this guy and his message. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66
May 14, 2008...1:48 pm
Do Schools Kill Creativity?
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Just watched Sir Ken Robinson on TED. I love this guy and his message. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66
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May 14, 2008 at 1:55 pm
This is a must see for everyone.
June 19, 2008 at 4:54 am
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Improbability.
July 9, 2008 at 11:15 pm
I am a right-brained elementary teacher who had as a child and has an an adult a hard time in a left brain school system! I loved the video … it resonated with so much of what I think about all the time! How can we prepare our youth for jobs that don’t even exist (2065 is a long time from now) … we are progressively educating children from the waist up with a slight tilt to the left … how scary that IN THE WORLD more people are going to college and the drop-out rate in Detroit is 65% (school is sometimes a pipeline to prison). I showed this piece to my university students (teachers to be) and we had a lively discussion about creativity being as important as literacy. I venture to say that we can’t be literate with out creativity (word reading is NOT literacy). We need to read, write, speak, listen AND VISION. It makes us better citizens (and yes … vicariously helps us to pass those frickin standardized tests)
Bravo … I would love an encore! I would love to attend one of those conferences! Never heard of it before! Thank you for bringing to my square-inch!
July 10, 2008 at 12:13 am
Great to hear from you. AND, how fortunate we are that YOU are teaching. Ken Robinson’s message resonates with me also. Another fascinating video on TED you might like is Jill Bolte’s Stroke of Insight. Its a very different story, but one that illustrates what can happen when we rediscover our creative and expansive self.
You can see it at this link:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html